# 📜 ZEN AI Co. / historic-proofs  
**Permanent Blockchain-Verified Dossier: The ZEN AI Pioneer Program**  

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## 🌍 Overview
This repository preserves the **ZEN AI Pioneer Program**, the **first verifiable youth AI literacy initiative in U.S. and world history** (2023–2025).  

- **Historic milestone**: Guided students as young as **11 years old** to build and launch **cloud-hosted AI applications**.  
- **Verified proof**: Anchored to the **Bitcoin blockchain** using [OpenTimestamps](https://opentimestamps.org).  
- **Public permanence**: Cross-archived on [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/the-zen-ai-pioneer-program-historic-first-in-yout), Zenodo (DOI), and Web3 storage systems.  
- **Global expansion**: Reached **40+ states** and international learners with homeschool kits, cloud deployments, and blockchain credentials.  

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## 📂 Files Included
- **`The_ZEN_AI_Pioneer_Program.pdf`**  
  → Official dossier documenting the origins, scope, and global impact.  

- **`The_ZEN_AI_Pioneer_Program.pdf.ots`**  
  → OpenTimestamps proof file. Contains cryptographic commitments linking the dossier’s SHA-256 hash to a Bitcoin block.  

- **`hash.txt`**  
  → Text record of the stamped SHA-256 hash:  534351e1f8a2c025c89eeac196f6314205699d1455ed382a3b2ca9755b410c1b

  
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## 🔑 Verification Workflow
**1. Validate the blockchain timestamp**
```bash
ots verify "The_ZEN_AI_Pioneer_Program.pdf.ots"